HP Wireless Solutions Streamline Sports Video Replay System

One of the great things about working on the HP OEM Program team is you are exposed to all kinds of innovative applications. Avoca’s myplayXplay™ app is a good example. The streaming video solution lets coaches instantly review and annotate video replays on the sideline using tablet telestrators. It is used in a variety of sports—football, hockey, soccer—at all levels, from schools, to amateur organizations like USA Hockey, to professional teams like the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles.

The Avoca solution is designed to be highly portable and easy to set up. Travelling teams can take the self-contained video system on the road and have it up and running in a matter of minutes. You simply plug in and power up the unit. Game video automatically starts streaming to tablets over Wi-Fi.

Avoca needed a reliable, high-performance wireless LAN solution that would work well in challenging RF (radio frequency) environments like arenas and stadiums. After a thorough evaluation process involving Cisco and other competitors, Avoca standardized on HP WLAN access points and controllers for the networking component of the myplayXplay system.

“Other vendors’ solutions either presented too much complexity to the end user, underperformed at the HP price point, or tripled our price point,” explained Ivan Reel, Design and Development Director for Avoca Reel. “HP was the only vendor that gave us the performance and support we needed while offering an interface that any customer could navigate. HP won on all our criteria.”

To learn more about how HP wireless technology is powering this innovative application read the case study on hp.com.